Skinning-knife.



No: 732,911. v PATBNTBD JULY '1, 190s.

' G. N.ABBEY,

' SKINNINGl KNIFE.

APPLICATION FILED PEB, 5. 1903.

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PATENT SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 732,911, dated July 7, 1903. Application filed I 'ebruary 5, 1903. Serial No. 1421088. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE N. ABBEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Union, in the county of Canadian, Oklahoma Territory, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SkinningKnives; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in `butchers Skinning-knives, and is especially adapted for ripping and iiaying the skin of beeves and other animals.

The object is to provide a knife for this pur-` pose by which the Skinning of an animal may be greatly expeditedwithout liability of un;` duly eutting'or tearing theskin or hacking the flesh of the animal.

With this and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure lis a perspective view of a knife embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the blade on the line 3 3, and Fig. 4. is a longitudinal section through the end of the knife-blade.

In the drawings, l denotes the knife-blade, 2`

' the handle, and 3 a guard-hook formed on the end of the knife-blade. The blade 1 is curved and is sharp along the entire length of its convex edge 4, While the back or concave edge 5 is sharpened but a short distance from the end. The guard-hook 3 extends obliquely across the knife-blade and is formed on one sideonly of the same, butrnaybe on either side, 4as desired, to forma right and left hand knife,

beyond the back of the blade to form ahook 3b,

side of said projecting portion adjacent to the angle formed by the same and the back edge of the blade is sharpened or beveled to an edge, as shown at G.

In practice when it is desired to skin an animal a small incision is made in the skin at one end of the carcass, and the hook or projecting end of the guard is inserted inthe incision, the back of the blade being next to the hide.` operator and the skin ripped the entire length of the animal Without removing the knife, the guard preventing the knife from cutting or tearing the iiesh and enabling a straight even cut to be made in the skin. After the skin has been ripped the knife may be further used in fiaying and peelingY the samefrom the carcass, the guard acting as a shield and greatly aiding in this operation and eifectually preventing cutting the skin or hacking the fiesh.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection W ith the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion,

Vand the minor details of construction may beV resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A knife-blade having a cutting edge and a guard on the outer end of the blade, projecting laterally from one side thereof, said guard having a hook projecting beyond said cutting edge, substantially as described.

2. A butcher-knife having sharp convex and concave edges, and a conical-shaped guard formed obliquely across one side and at the end of said blade and projecting beyond said concave edge to form a hook, substantially as described.

3. A knife-blade having front and rear cutting edges and provided at its outer end with a guard projecting laterally from one side thereof, said guard having a hook projecting beyond the rear cutting edge of the blade, substantially as described.

The knife isnow drawn toward the IDO 4. Aknfe-blade'having front and rear outln testimony whereof I have hereunto set ting edges and provided at its outer end with Iny hand in presence of two subscribing Witto a guard projecting laterally from one side nesses. thereof, said guard tapering from the front outer corner of the blade toward the rear edge thereof, and having a reversely-tapered hook Witnesses: projecting beyond the rear Cutting,` edge of D. P. RICHARDSON, the blade, substantially as described. V. YV. FAKER.

GEORGE N. ABBEY. 

